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Mounting the product disc

You must have superuser (root) privileges to load the SF Oracle RAC software.

You can unmount the product disc after completing your SF Oracle RAC installation and configuration.

 To mount the product disc using mount command

1. Log in as superuser to a cluster node or a remote node in the same subnet as the cluster nodes.
2. Insert the product disc in the appropriate drive on your local system.
3. Determine the block device file for the disc drive:

   # ioscan -fnC disk

   Make a note of the device file as it applies to your system.

4. Create a directory in which to mount the software disc and mount the disc using the appropriate drive name. For example:

   # mkdir -p /cdrom

   # /usr/sbin/mount -F cdfs /dev/dsk/c3t2d0 /cdrom

5. Verify that the disc is mounted:

   # mount